NUMS Paws & Print

October 2012 Volume 6, Issue 2

Survey for October Autumn What teachers like about Halloween. Past the humid summer Think about what you like the best during But not quite winter frost this season/holiday. By: Jessica V. I spend my days of autumn

Ms. Fry -- “I love dressing up to hand out Watching the fall of every leaf candy”. that’s lost Mrs. Sheets -- “I like Halloween because of Little animals scurry the candy and the spookiness.” And I like the change of leaves Mrs.. Wade -- ”I like Halloween because Not quite myself anymore the choice of costume.” Not quite like me Mrs.Welch __ “I like Halloween because of True I still laugh and smile the pumpkins.” I still sing my songs Mrs. Miller --”I like Halloween because of I still write out my little lyrics the candy.” As fall sings along Mr. George --”I like Halloween because of My voice has grown quieter the candy.” My mindset changing too Mr. Mayers --”I like Halloween because of I watch the autumn colors shift the costumes and the haunted houses.” Into winter blue Spring is nowhere near me Mrs.McMahan -- Halloween is during the Fall season & I love Fall. Summer slips to grey Mrs. Mathys--”I like Halloween because of Winter’s slow and cold advancing the candy.” But today is an Autumn day Mrs. Chapman -- “The pumpkins and the jack o’lanterns By Kaleah P.

North Star Halloween Party By: Madison P.

On Halloween, there will be a party up at North Star from the end of school until 6:00. We need as many people as possible to go. Wear your costume. There will be games, snacks, and a drawing contest and more -- maybe a costume contest. Thanks to Mike and Katherine who are the directors of North Star. Please come, it will be a blast!!! Future City By: Andrew W. i l d c a t B a n d The Future City team has made progress R o c k s ! ! ! with their city, Oasi Blu. As stated last month, their challenge for this years competition is to design an innovative way to deal with water run-off. They have decided that the entire city floor Marching Band Talk will be built with a certain material that By: Monica W. absorbs the rain water through it. Un- der the material, there will be a open- This month has been a fun full month. With the faced pipe that carries the water to a snake dance and homecoming, the 8th graders get a purification center, then distributed to really strong taste of being a marching Wildcat. At the city as needed. Other than that the the snake dance they all had to wear school col- team has made a good start in the Sim- ors in the coldness of the October weather. Since City portion of the project. It looks like this was the first snake dance that the th8 graders North Union may do good in the Future have marched in, it was a fun time. Then there was City competition this year. the homecoming game and all the anticipation of how the new show would go for a big crowd. We all played at halftime two of our normal routines -- Runaway Baby and The Hand That Feeds, and then we had the alumni band come out as we rocked out to Ain’t Been Good and Free Ride. We had both old and new graduates. One was the 8th grades own Mrs. Rainey (Trombone). The game after homecoming was the senior show. The band played Disturbia, Boom Boom and Stray Cat Strut. All of the routines are great,but they take a lot of work. The marching band season is coming to an end, but we still have Football Tournaments and hopefully the team will go far this year. The 8th graders in the Marching band includes Robert K., he 8th grade just finished and Austin N. Sorry I forgot them last month! working on public ser- vice campaigns dealing with bullying. They all Tcreated t-shirts and voted on their favorite, which was cre- ated by Maddie G, Megan S., M.S. is a Nate K., Colten B. and Nicole n o F. The hope is that the whole i school will wear them on the n U day that Cabot Rea comes into h

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Martin is covering all but $5.00. r (See article on page 4 about the o 8th Grade ELA unit on Cyberbul- N lying.) NUMS Football Teams Mandel Vs. Brown By Anna A end Season @ Cardington It’s time for you to decide! Look at these articles and decide who you want to vote for. At the bot- tom of the page you will see a link to vote! Both teams finished the 2012 season at Sources: https://www.joshmandel.com/contribute3/?gc Cardington on October 18th. The final lid=CICC84yaq7MCFUZgMgod93kAdg game was a combo event because Carding- http://www.brown.senate.gov/ ton did not have two separate teams for 7th and 8th. Overall the teams ended with a 3-4 record. The 7th grade team beat Mt. Gilead I promise to... Leading by example in the Treasurer`s office 38-6 and then lost to Highland 8 to 14. The End the wasteful spending in Washington 8th grade team lost to Mt. Gilead 6 to 12 Stop the Reckless Borrowing and then beat highland 18 to 0. Now the Balance the Federal Budget teams can work to cheer on the Varsity vs. Overhaul and Simplify the Tax Code Galion at NUHS Friday 11/2. Go Cats! Reforming Federal Regulations Achieving American Energy Independence 8th Grade Volleyball Providing Accessible and Affordable Healthcare I promise to... We came in third place in the tournament with Aerospace, Science, & Innovation our final total record being 12 for 6. We got 11 Agriculture & Rural Communities for 5 in the regular play. I feel we could have Trade & Foreign Policy done better but we still had fun playing the sport Economy & Jobs we all love. Coach Brittany Levering is amaz- Education & Workforce Development ing and we are very thankful that we have had Military & Defense her for 2 years. These girls should play in High Financial Services & Housing Policy That Works School next year. (Alexis Nicholson, Tiffany for Main Street Grose, Riley Plotner, Summer Blevins, Autumn Health Care Hudson , Devyn Feasal , Haylee Day, Cheyenne Mandel in Depth Wiley, Jenna Rodenburger, Avery Ballinger, Ka- Cutting the Budget, Slashing Spending and Run- tie Dotson), By Alexis N. ning a Surplus: Treasurer Mandel launched a top-bottom review of the Treasurer’s office that 7th grade Volleyball team has resulted in millions in savings and stream- ended on a good note with finishing 2nd lined government, allowing him to cut the bud- in the COAL tournament. They all worked get and generate millions in surplus. hard and were sad to end the season, *Protecting Public Funds, Credit Ratings and but happy with their ending. The team Investments: Treasurer Mandel has focused lost against the Northmor Knights in the on core functions of the office, such as protect- championship game in 2 games. In the ing tax dollars, conservatively managing debt, early season, they lost in 3 games against maintaining and improving credit ratings, safe- the team. They are all ready to come back guarding investments, and leveraging technol- ogy to improve operations. next year and bring home a 1st place tro- *Leading as a Government Watchdog and Tax- phy! By Paxon S. payer Advocate: Treasurer Mandel has restored integrity to the office, gone after banks accused of defrauding taxpayers, and been an advocate NUMS STUCO -- R.E.A.P. Food Drive for Ohio taxpayers. is coming so get ready to bring the goods! 8th Grade ELA Oppa Gangnam Style In 8th grade ELA the students were asked to read a book based on bullying. By Andrew W. The book choices were: Wondering why people are so obsessed Bystander Egghead with some weird Korean guy dancing and Bullyville Schooled singing lyrics you can’t even understand? The Revealers The people who are obsessed with it are After the students read these books, wondering the same Exact Thing. It’s one they were assigned a project to summa- of those songs that you hate, but love at rize their books by doing the following the same time because it’s either strangely outstanding projects: catchy or easy to make fun of or both. Monologue I decided that we needed to find out what Puppet show it meant and find an interterpretation as Public Service Announcement well ... being South Korean based makes For the Monologue, we used MS Word, it a little complicated. Let’s start with the phrase that is the only part of the song any- and for the PSA, we used Windows Movie body knows. Oppa Gangnam style. Oppa is Maker after recording the videos using a term that female Koreans use to refer to the Flip cameras. All of the books had their older boyfriends, husbands, fathers, the same theme of bullying. Mrs. Huber friends etc.. Gangnam is a district (like a is grading these projects carefully. The state or province) in South Korea where the PSA is the most impacting project, be- majority of the population is rich. When cause of the fact that the winning group’s I tell you rich it is a filthy rich locale with announcement will be presented around only around 1% of the South Korean popu- the school. It could also be our own new lation taking residence there. NUMS Facebook page. Maybe some of So “Gangnam style” is basically a thing you would like to read one or more of Koreans say when referring to something these novels on this increasingly impor- that’s high-class or trendy and expensive. tant topic, so here is a visual of each one. The song was also meant to be humorous in South Korea, since everything they were doing was far from “gangnam style,” yet the singer kept on saying he was Gangnam style. So, there’s some sanity and explanation to that tune that catches you and keeps you coming back for more!

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8. Columbus Day observance 16. Boss’s Day 19. NO SCHOOL 4 US! 20. Sweetest Day 3rd Saturday 24. United Nations Day 26. Eid-U1-Adha 26. END OF THE 9 WEEKS! 27. Make a Difference Day 4th Saturday 31. HALLOWEEN--BOO!

C H O i October’s Birthstone By: Brei L R Opal is the modern birthstone for October; an alter- nate Zodiac stone for Aries, Libra, and Scorpio; and the gemstone gift for the 18th anniversary. Opal choir this month, Mrs. Kincaid has been introducing this year's has been associated with hope, faith, and confi- In musical, "Guys and Dolls Jr." dence. We started by reading through the Opal has been a popular gem for many centuries. It musical. Each time we read through, has the same chemical formula as quartz with the different students volunteer to read addition of 5 to 10 percent water. Structurally it parts. We have also started blocking consists of tiny spheres with water filling the gaps. the scenes - this is when we figure out These spheres in most Opals are irregular in size when everyone comes onto stage and and inconsistent in concentration. Yet in Precious where they stand on the stage. Over Opal, the variety used most often in jewelry, there the next couple of weeks we will con- are many organized pockets of the spheres. These tinue learning about the musical but pockets contain spheres of approximately equal also working on our songs for the Win- size and have a regular concentration, or structure, ter Concert. Auditions for the musical of the spheres. This has the effect of diffracting will take place 3 weeks before Christ- light at various wavelengths, creating colors. Each mas Break and call back auditions will pocket produces a different color, with a different be 2 weeks before break. Students will intensity depending on the angle from which a know who the main cast is before leav- viewer sees it. The multicolored flashes of light that ing for break, that way they can prac- Opal emits gives it a truly beautiful and valuable tice their songs and lines before school look, called a play of light. starts again in January. by Elizabeth C. Cry Baby Bridge Letters To The Editor On Halloween people go to a bridge called Cry Baby bridge. It is said that one night a Dear Editor: Woman and her baby were riding home in a I was at swim practice a few nights carriage. As they were riding across a bridge ago and I wondered, why doesn't North something spooked their horse and the baby, Union have a swim team? I've even seen mother and horse fell off of the edge. It is said people at swim practice from North that if today you were to drive to the bridge, park on the bridge, turn your car off and set Union, so I assume that I am not the only your keys on the hood, then say I killed your one who wants a swim team here. Even baby, she will appear. You will also hear a horse, though I am only a sixth grader, I could or the baby crying. Again, it is a popular place train and then join next year, that is, if for people to go on Halloween to feel that there even is a team next year. Swim- spooky effect. There are several of these and ming is a very tough sport, and builds one of many purported crybaby bridges is lo- cated near Doylestown, Ohio, in an area known muscle and endurance skills. It literally as Rogue’s Hollow. This bridge is located on uses every muscle in your body. I think Galehouse Road, between Rogue Hollow Road that having a swim team here would be and Hametown Road. The bridge spans Silver a great way for kids who don't particu- Creek. Deep in Rogue’s Hollow, this road previ- larly like other sports to get in shape. ously led from the bottom of the hollow (Hame- Even if the person wishing to be on the town Rd.) to the top (Rogue Hollow Rd.). The bridge is only approachable from Hametown swim team isn't a good swimmer, they Rd. from October to May, as the steeper por- can learn how to be a better swimmer. tion of the road is seasonally closed to prevent All around, swimming is a great sport. accidents. The bridge is property of the Rogue’s I hope you consider having a middle Hollow historical society, which also owns the school (and high school) swim team in adjacent Chidester Mill.[1] Maybe somebody the near future. can check it out or has family near there that can give us more information. Tis the Season to Sincerely, be Haunted!!! Lily A. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crybaby_Bridge by: Sarilyn C. NUMS Limo Lunch!!! Good Luck to NUHS Football Team -- Beat Galion! Halloween Spice Cake National CyberSecurity Awareness Month

In this day and age, we rely more on the Internet than ever before. We use it to work, play, learn, and almost everything else in our daily lives. However, the internet is like great lemonade: however sweet, there’s always a little sour. Hackers can find, ac- cess, and exploit personal information to empty bank accounts, make purchases, and Ingredients just plain stalk you. So how is one to keep Butter, 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for personal information personal? Well, we’re pan, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1/2 teaspoon fine working on it. October is National Cyber sea salt, 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa pow- Secuity Awareness month, so here are some der, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon, 2 teaspoons tips on safe surfing... web surfing, that is. x3 ground ginger, 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/4 • Use passwords that combine Upper- teaspoon ground allspice, 1 cup sugar, 1/4 cup case and lowercase letters, numbers, length, packed light brown sugar, 2/3 cup vegetable oil and obscurity. Try to use different passwords 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce, 2 eggs, 1 tea- for everything and change passwords about spoon pure vanilla extract, Powdered sugar, for every two months. dusting • Remember to update anti-virus Directions: software regularly to maintain maximum For the cake: Place an oven rack in the center of the protection. Run scans often to check for mal- oven. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and ware, spyware, trojans and viruses. flour a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan. Set aside. In a medium • To not click anything you don’t trust. bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, cocoa If it looks suspicious, it probably isn’t safe. If powder, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and allspice. In it looks too good to be true, it probably is. a large bowl, beat the sugars, oil, applesauce, eggs, • Shop only at reputable sites and look and vanilla extract to blend. Add the dry ingredi- for “https” in the URL. It means the site is ents and stir until just blended. Pour the batter into secure. the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spatu- • Just ignore spam. It could contain the la. Bake for 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick in- aforementioned malware, spyware, trojans, serted into the center of the cake comes out clean. and viruses. You could get these just by Cool the cake for 10 minutes. Unmold the cake and opening the eMail. place on a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with • Just won a million dollars and an iPad powdered sugar and cut into slices for serving. 37? Not so fast. Pop-ups are usually scams to get your personal information. Madison P. Found this awesome recipe! By Grayson P. Links for more information: It’s not just pumpkin time -- it’s apple time! http://msisac.cisecurity.org/newslet- ters/2012-01.cfm

http://www.dhs.gov/national-cyber-securi- ty-awareness-month TECH CLUB VEX ROBOTS What do you think of when you see a spider? by Grayson P. The group is now a part of the new Marion area RAMTEC Vex League. RAMTEC is the new Ewww?” “Kill it?” How about “Awww?” robotics center. They are currently building Well, I’m pretty sure none of you think spiders as an addition at Tri-Rivers, and they are our are cute, you probably think of them as giant main sponsor. in addition to Honda and DeVry hairy evil little demon bugs. I am here to pro- (and maybe others). test that view. First of all: spiders are not bugs. They are arachnids. You probably already know this, but just in case you didn’t. 2nd: it won’t kill you if you let it live. Most spiders in North America are completely harmless to humans and chanc- es are it isn’t a brown recluse or black widow. Even if it is, however, it won’t bite you if you handle it carefully. The proper way to remove a spider is to put a cup over it, then slide a piece of paper under the cup. The spider will be on the paper and you can put it outside where Currently, there are 28 teams on the league, it can’t hurt you. 3rd: going off my last rant, house spiders (the ones you’ve been squishing but most of which are high school teams. all your life), can’t hurt you. In fact, they help Right now there are 8 middle school teams humanity by eating insects that could other- and students at our school are in 6 of them! wise make you sick, like fleas and ticks and Needless to say, our competition is tough. flies. 4th: spiders make good pets. I know that Over the course of 4 different competitions sounds a little (okay a lot) weird, but it’s true! (one each in Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb), they will cal- Spiders won’t bark at the neighbors or scratch culate the highest scoring team on the league. the furniture, they don’t need a big yard to run That team will qualify for the Vex World Com- around in, and they’re really cool just to watch. petition in San Diego, CA in April. They don’t need other spiders to be happy We are also going to 3 other "qualifying" and they don’t need a lot of expensive groom- events, where 1-4 top teams from each event ing or food, however some spiders have really will qualify for worlds (one in Dec, two in Feb). specific needs that must be met or else they’ll One of those qualifying events is middle die. 5th: okay, now back to wild spiders. See school only...32 teams, we have 7 of those a spider in your kitchen and worried it’ll get teams, and the top 4 teams will qualify for into your food? Well, it won’t. Spiders don’t eat worlds. We are extremely hopeful to get one human food, just bugs, so your pantry is safe. of these spots since most other teams in the 6th: As big as that spider seems, you’re a zillion area are just starting and brand new to using times bigger than it and it’s more afraid of you Vex. We are "California Dreaming!" than you are of it. Seriously. 7th: Believe it or Submitted by : Mrs. Matlack not, you actually have symbiosis with spiders. Spiders have evolved with humans to eat what bugs us (lol yeah, pun), so maybe we should give them a little more respect. Besides, don’t they look a little cuter now that you know they won’t kill you in your sleep?

Speaking of disguises and Houses By: Natalie S. Halloween costumes what

The seventh grade has started the first nine about MASCOTS :D?? weeks off with new teams/houses as outlined below: Starting off, I would just like to say that The Red Foxes of Europe the Summer Olympics Mascots are ter- The Orange Lions of Africa rifying. Have you SEEN those things? Well Purple Penguins of Antarctica anyway, Mascots play a big role in the Yellow Pandas of Asia school, because they represent the school Blue Eagles of North America and it’s just fun to dress up as their colors Green Kangaroos of Australia =) And mascots are kinda like logos! Mas- Pink Panthers of South America cots can sometimes be a nuisance though. When they hug you I mean. It’s just...... I The team has the leaders of Mr.Russell for don’t know...creepy. There are thousands the red team, Mr. Holsinger for orange team, of different mascots and there have even Mrs. Matlack for yellow team, Mrs. Draper for been mascot RACES. And did you ever the green team, Mr. Schilen for the blue team, notice that all the schools in Union County( Mrs. Nichols for the purple team, and last Mrs. Fairbanks, Marysville, NU, etc.) have Paw- Richardson for the Pink team. prints? One of the weirdest mascots ever The teams have had a good start. Last years (Besides the Summer Olympics. Man...) Is a champions are the Red team, with Mr. Russell, but this year, the Red team has had a rough BANANA. Yes, A banana. Now here’s where start, this year. Their score is now,15, in 5th it gets confusing. At the END of this article, place. I will list all of the schools and mascots of The first place is Green with 143, in second the Mid Ohio Athletic Conference in foot- place, Pink with 138, in third place, Blue with ball. I guess it wasn’t that confusing. To me, 127, in fourth place, Purple with 126, in sixth mascots are very helpful. When you’re at a is Yellow with 99, and in seventh place is the football game and you haven’t been pay- Orange house with 94 total points. ing attention, They’ll say the points (Like 55-5) and I’ll be like “Pffft! Which are we?” And then they’ll say Wildcats up 2 points and i’ll be like “Oooooh”. So your home- work for tonight is look up pictures of the Summer Olympics Mascots (2012) and have nightmares about them. -Miranda :D Highland- Fighting Scots Pleasant- Spartans Elgin- Comets Buckeye Valley- Barons Cardington-Lincoln- Pirates Wait a Ridgedale- Rockets River Valley- Vikings minute we North Union- Wildcats know who Mount Gilead- Indians you are! Northmor- Golden Knights Richwood-North Union On October 31 the library will be Public Library News hosting the best party you will find! Audrey Van Dyne, Asst. Youth Librarian If you’re feeling too old to trick or treat, but you still want to have a The library is filled with fun and fright this Octo- scary good time this Halloween, then ber! Look no further than the Richwood Li- the library is the place for you! Check brary for all of your Halloween fun this year! We out all of our haunted fun, including have so much happening in October for teens a mummy wrap contest, a bat scaven- and you can always stop in anytime to check out ger hunt, and plenty of candy. Stick all of our new teen books that are constantly your hands in Dr. Gross’s Jar if you arriving. So grab a friend and head to the library dare or try freaking out your friends this fall! It’s spooky how much fun you can have with your own scary story. Don’t for- with friends on Teen Game Night. If you haven’t get to dress up for our Costume Con- been to one of our Teen Game Nights yet then test! This is a party you don’t want to stop by on October 17 at 4:30pm. You won’t miss on October 31st at 4:00pm. want to miss the free pizza and soda, not to mention all of the games we have! If you can’t make it this month, don’t worry, because Teen Game Night happens each month on the third Wednesday at 4:30pm. Who doesn’t love a day off of school, right? Well, on October 19 at 2:00pm you can celebrate the day off by coming to the library for a Scary Movie Marathon! Think you can last longer watching a creepy flick than your best friend? Find out who gets freaked out first and snack on popcorn all afternoon. You and your friends will choose which two movies to watch. Don’t get stuck with those boredom blues on your day off, come to the library! We have a lot of fun events hap- pening at the library all the time but if you have ideas let us know! We would love to hear your ideas and even put them into action. Let us know what you want at your library, whether its a great book you heard about or a cool idea for a party we should have, we want to hear it all! You can come in and tell us your ideas, call us at 943-3054, or send an email to audreyvandyne@ richwoodlibrary.org. Don’t forget to “like” us on Facebook! Hope to see you soon! By “Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try Lissie not to be too down on yourself. Enjoy the ever M. present game of knowing.” -Hank Green The next Paws and Print will be a combo for November and December! Have a great November!